We must never add to or take away from the Scriptures

CAN SOMEONE POINT ME TO WHERE IN THE BIBLE IT SPEAKS ABOUT NOT TAKING AWAY OR ADDING TO THE SCRIPTURES. I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING IN THERE, THAT SPEAKS ABOUT THAT. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. PLEASE HELP.

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Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

Yes. Verses 18 and 19 of chapter 22 of Revelations:

"I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if
anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in
this book, and if anyone takes away from the words in this prophetic
book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the
holy city described in this book."

I've found very well-written explanations of why the above does _not_
refer to the Bible as such--one from a Mormon apologetics site and
another from a relatively Catholic-friendly Christian-ecumenism site.
I'll copy and paste from the sources here:

Dr. Peterson writes,

"The Bible as such did not exist when the book of Revelation was
written. The individual books of the Bible circulated independently
as scrolls. The Bible never refers to itself as 'the Bible,' because
it does not know itself as such. Because, of course, it did not
exist as such during the time of its writing. Accordingly, the book
of Revelation did not come at the end of the 'Bible' in the first
Christian centuries -- because it could not have done so -- and,
thus, Revelation 22:18-19 could not possibly be referring to the rest
of the Bible. It is merely a warning to unscrupulous scribes against
tampering with the words of Revelation itself. Such tampering was a
significant problem in antiquity, when books circulated in small
numbers of easily-modified hand-written manuscripts, and such
warnings are not uncommon."

And Michael Gleghorn of "Probe Ministries" writes,

"So what about the Book of Mormon, or the Koran? Why not accept these
books as additional revelation from God? My answer to this is simple:
whatever the source of these books, it is NOT the God of the Bible.
How do we know this? Because both books teach beliefs and practices
which are CONTRARY to the Bible. ... * ... In addition, not only do
Mormonism and Islam teach a different doctrine of God than that
revealed in the Bible, they also teach a different doctrine of man,
sin, the afterlife, salvation, etc."

* - I omitted this sentence: "The 'God' of Mormonism and the 'God' of
Islam are NOT the same God as the God of the Bible." It does not
reflect Catholic teaching--both traditions in fact worship the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, although neither can be described as
Christian (although Mormonism understands itself as Christian).

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

Protestants frequently quote this text in an attempt to support the
novel 16th century doctrine of sola scriptura. That is a
misinterpretation. This passage states that nothing can be
added or removed from the ACTUAL TEXT. The TEXT ITSELF
cannot be altered. It does NOT mean that nothing can be taught
that does not specifically appear in the text; and therefore it does
NOT mean that the scriptural text is the only source of valid
Christian doctrine.

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

Actually, I would say the subject scripture mentioned above even has
a stricter meaning; it refers to the "prophecies of this book," i.e.,
the Book of Revelation. So it is not referencing the entire canon of
scripture at all, but rather Revelations ONLY.

That's not to say, however, that adding or subtracting from the Holy
Word of God is not THE most serious of matters. It is! Like the
writer said above, the Reformers removed the apochryphal books on
their own accord by the power vested in themselves BY themselves.

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

There were only about 14 other gospels, though there were over 100
other epistles. The rejection of these writings was the work of the
Holy Spirit, and did not constitute taking anything away from
scripture, as these writings never were accepted as part of
scripture. If you don't accept the rejection of certain writings as
the work of the Holy Spirit, then there is no reason to acknowledge
the acceptance of certain writings as the work of the Holy Spirit
either. The definition of the canon of scripture was one work - some
writings rejected, some accepted. It's all or nothing.

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

I repeat - the Bible was not compiled until the end of the 4th
century. That's when "The Bible" came into existence, and NOTHING has
been added or removed by the Catholic Church since that time,
specifically the year 397. As for Protestant churches, they will have
to speak for themselves. What they did with the Bible once they
received it from the Catholic Church is between them and God.

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

The point is, there is a lot of stuff that was purposely omited from
the Bible because it didn't aggree with the official line of thought.
It was cencorship, plain and simple, just like when a government
orders newspapers to take stuff out that doesn't aggree with them.
It's a totalitarian move and it's unjustifyable.

Response to WE MUST NEVER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE SCRIPTURES

[Censorship]?

Anti-bush do you mean "rejected" instead of "censored" in
reference to the Scriptures when you claim that the Bible was compiled
in such a way that it was aligned with the proper Gospel? I do believe
that those "rejected" writings were all heretical to the true
theology. If you are talking about the Reformation Movement
that took it upon themselves to edit the Bible according to their
doctrine, I think that we might agree with you. The only Bible
compilation that is of any significance is that which the Church has
given the world.